Born and unborn children have a right to life

January 24, 2013

Let me state that I am not a gun owner nor am I a member of the National Rifle Association; hence, I have no ax to grind. Having said that, our president's recent promulgations concerning gun control, specifically advocating 23 executive actions for gun control and shamelessly parading four children behind him at the White House, reflect the ultimate hypocrisy.

While we were all saddened, shocked and dismayed by the Newtown, Conn., massacre, where is the outrage and disgust when more than 400,000 unborn children are murdered through abortion each year in our country?

Our caring president has had no problems with all forms of abortion, both early and late term, including the most heinous of all, partial birth abortion which, for the uninitiated, involves delivering the baby's head and evacuating its contents (i.e., its brain).

As a state senator in Illinois, he voted not to make this atrocity a criminal act and opposed prosecuting any physician performing it. Spare me the crocodile tears, Mr. President. The lives and welfare of all children both born and unborn are precious in all circumstances.